[openbeos] Re: Is BeOS a true microkernel?
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:30:31 -0500
>> >Maybe that's not such a good question (since I don't rightly
>> >know what a true mu-kernel is -- but I'm curious...)
>>
>> A microkernel, by Tanenbaum's definition (page 388) only does 4
>> things:
>> Interprocess communication (BMessages/ports, for us), some
>> memory management, limited amount of low-level process management
>> and scheduling and low level i/o.
>
>That makes five ;-)
He put them in a bulletted list. process management and scheduling were
together. :-)
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